Going in the zone

The top sports people in the world don’t just work on their bodies but also on their minds. They are well aware that to be the best of the best and perform to the highest level they must train their mental skills such as confidence, concentration, motivation and anxiety control as well as their physical skills.

Recently I’ve been asked more and more about “the zone.” Most often it’s described as being in an intense state where performance has improved exponentially for a short period of time, but what causes this state? And why can’t we

After a great performance, athletes have described a feeling of being “in the zone.” In this state, they feel invincible, as if the game slowed down and that they were “on a roll”. A good visual example of it is in

I put this MP3 together for my top Gaelic Football players but I thought I would share it with you. I feel that concentration and not confidence, or “who wants it most” is what makes the difference in the dying seconds of a close game.

In this audio I will give you some of the ways in which you can keep focused throughout a game.